Publications from AlienImpacts research
AlienImpacts core members in bold
*Joint first, last or corresponding author
Peer-reviewed publications
Bakker, J.D., Price, J.N., Henning, J.A., Batzer, E.E., Ohlert, T.J., Wainwright, C.E., … Catford, J.A., … Wardle, G.M. (2023) Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere 14: e4542. link (open access)
Bartlett, A., Blackburn, T., & Catford, J.A. (2024) Introduction bias and debt in Australia’s alien tree flora. Authorea. link (open access preprint)
Bartlett, A.C., Blackburn, T.M., Randall, R. & Catford, J.A. (2023) Characteristics of Australia’s alien flora vary with invasion stage. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 1163-1177. link (open access)
Brian, J.I., Guennec, A.L., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., Chadwick, M.A. & Catford, J.A. (2025) Plant neighbours, not consumers, drive intraspecific phytochemical changes of two grassland species in a field experiment. AoB Plants 17: plaf071. link (open access) Editor’s choice
Brian, J.I., Shepherd, H.E.R., Pérez-Navarro, M.Á. & Catford, J.A. (2024) Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 112: 1473-1486. link (open access)
Brian, J.I. & Catford, J.A. (2023) A mechanistic framework of enemy release. Ecology Letters 26: 2147-2166. link (open access)
Brian, J. & Catford, J. (2023) Ecological scale and context dependence. Effective Ecology: Seeking Success in a Hard Science. Ed. R. D. Cousens. CRC Press, Boca Raton. link (to publisher) link (open access)
*Catford, J.A., Graham, L.J., Shepherd, H.E.R., Hauser, C.E., Munro, N., Wintle, B.A., Donohue, J., Tilman, D. & *Clark, A.T. (2025) Multiple mechanisms are required to predict grass community composition. Authorea. link (open access preprint)
Catford, J.A., Shepherd, H.E.R., Tennant, P. & Tilman, D. (2023) Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture. Journal of Ecology. link (open access).
Catford, J.A., Wilson, J.R.U., Pyšek, P., Hulme, P.E. & Duncan, R.P. (2022) Addressing context dependence in ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 158-170. link (open access) pdf SI
Daleo, P., Alberti, J., Chaneton, E. J., Iribarne, O., Tognetti, P. M., Bakker, J. D., … Catford, J.A., … Hautier, Y. (2023) Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of biodiversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass. Nature Communications 14: 1809. link (open access)
Gregory, D., White, M. & Catford, J.A. (2025) Similar drivers but distinct patterns of woody and herbaceous alien plant invasion. NeoBiota link (open access)
Latombe G., Catford J.A., Essl F., Lenzner B., Richardson D.M., Wilson J.R.U. & McGeoch, M.A. (2022) GIRAE: a Generalised approach for linking the total Impact of invasion to species’ Range, Abundance and per-unit Effects. Biological Invasions 24: 3147–3167. link (open access)
MacDougall, A., Esch, E., Chen, Q., … Catford, J.A., … & Seabloom, E. (in press) Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Novoa, A., Moodley, D., Catford, J.A., Golivets, M., Bufford, J., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Pattison, Z. & Pyšek, P. (2021) Global costs of plant invasions must not be underestimated. NeoBiota69: 75-78. link (open access)
O’Reilly-Nugent, A., Blumenthal, D. M., Wandrag, E. M., Duncan, R. P., & Catford, J. A. (2024) Active restoration after three decades: seed addition increases native dominance compared to landscape-scale secondary succession. Journal of Applied Ecology. link (open access)
Palma, E., Vesk, P.A. & Catford, J.A. (2022) Building trait datasets: effect of methodological choice on a study of invasion. Oecologia 199: 919–935. link (open access)
Pérez-Navarro, M.A., Clark, A.T., Brian, J., Shepherd, H.E.R. & Catford, J.A. (2025) Evidence for environmental filtering and limiting similarity depend on spatial scale and dissimilarity metrics. Ecology 106: e70244. link (open access)
Spohn M., Bagchi, S., Bakker, J.D., Borer, E., … Catford, J.A., … & Seabloom, E. (2025) Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. Communications Biology 8: 97. link (open access)
Spohn, M., Bagchi, S., Biederman, L.A., Borer, E.T., … Catford, J.A., … Yahdjian, L. (2023) The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate. Nature Communications 14: 6624. link (open access)
Turbelin, A.J., Hudgins, E.J., Catford, J.A., Cuthbert, R.N., Diagne, C., Kourantidou, M., Roiz, D. & Courchamp, F. (2024) Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors. Global Environmental Change 87: 102858. link pdf (author accepted version)
Yahdjian, L., Campana, S., Tognetti, P. M., Alberti, J., Graff, P., Molina, C., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., Prober, S. M., … Catford, J. A., … & Virtanen, R. (2026) Insights on global rangeland ecosystem services shaped by grazing and fertilization. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment e70022. link
Zhang, P., Seabloom, E.W., Foo, J., MacDougall, A.S., Harpole, W.S., Adler, P.B., … Jentsch, A., Catford, J.A. & Borer, E.T. (2025) Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution. link
Other contributions
Shepherd, H.E.R (2023) Extreme weather may help invasive species out compete native animals – new study, The Conversation. link
Pérez-Navarro, M.A. & Brian, J.I. (2022) Invasive species: the critical yet complex group driving biodiversity loss. Uniting to address climate change around the world series, King’s College London website. link
UK Parliament POST (2022) Invasive non-native species. POSTNOTE No 673. (Catford as contributor & reviewer). link
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